by Dawn | May 4, 2016 | self-improvement, Teaching
My first student turned 30 today. He wasn’t actually my student, to be fair. He might have been the hall monitor or something, because he always came to check on all of my classes. I thought he was an employee for three years. He was the only person I ever...
by Dawn | May 1, 2016 | food, Parenting, Teaching
“I have a cold. I need chocolate chip cookies.” “No. I’ll make you some tea,” I say. “I don’t want tea. I want a cookie,” says the boy. There’s no room for discussion here. This is the kind of conversation that...
by Dawn | Jan 27, 2016 | education reform, family, simplicity
My son’s been in the bathroom for a very long time. I thought there was a problem. Nothing’s wrong except the iPad has a full charge. In the olden days, we took real books into the bathroom–honest to goodness literature. Dickens is plenty long...
by Dawn | Jan 23, 2016 | Teaching
“Kids today!” I hear this a lot. Teachers grumble about kids’ phones, inappropriate digital activity, kids and their Snapchat… My entrepreneur friends talk about the millennial entitlement–employees who want to leave at 5PM and own the...
by Dawn | Jan 16, 2016 | Teaching
“Why do we have midterms?” a kid asks. “Beats me,” I say. “Two wasted weeks. I’d rather teach. It’s required.” The kid gives me that “Aren’t you the adult…you’re supposed to be in...
by Dawn | Dec 30, 2015 | education reform, family, parenting, Teaching
The boy screams and wails. I panic and run to the other room. “It’s signed me out of X-box Live!” he says. I try to be relieved–nobody’s injured. Instead, the cold hand of fear wraps around my soul. I cannot fix the Xbox. I have no...
